1/72 North American XB 70 A Valkirye

Gallery Article by Silvio Pietropaolo on Jan 25 2011

 

The XB 70 was a wonderful airplane. The architecture of this plane was unusual and very fashionable.  The Italeri kit is a remake of old AMT kit in scale 1/72.  The model building is not easy and needs many modifications and arrangements.  I build my XB 70 A mostly O.O.B with some scratchbuilt detail in particular in the nose pitot and the landing gears.

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Alclad II metal paints.  Also the tires are painted with Alclad II and weathered with Tamiya weathering set.  Some decals are scratcbuilt and applied after a coating of Future floor wash.  The model in impressive for his dimensions, but  is a model that every modeller must have in your collection. 

I hope that you enjoy this my big model.

Silvio Pietropaolo

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Photos and text © by Silvio Pietropaolo